Description
and History: Hódmezővásárhely is one
of the oldest settlements in Hungary and is located in the
middle of the Great Hungarian Plain. There is evidence
of human habitation in the area dating back approximately
6,000 years. The town is named after the beavers (hód)
that once lived in Lake Hód. The lake has dried up due
to regulation of the river and its bed is now a recreation
park south of town. The literal translation of the
town's name is "beaver-field-market-place". The present town developed in
the 15th century, when the small villages of Hód, Vásárhely,
Tarján and Ábrány joined and established a market
town. In 1437 the town was called Hódvásárhely.
In the Middle Ages markets and livestock trade fueled the
town's growth. Starting in 1552, the region was
occupied by the Turks, and most of the residents fled or
were killed. Residents began returning in 1699.
After the War of Independence (1703-1711), the town was
under the control of several counts and generals. From
1722 on the Karolyi family possessed the town. This
lasted until 1818, when landowner jurisdiction was
abolished. Hódmezővásárhely was a pottery town
in the mid 19th century, with over 400 potters working
there.After the great flood of 1879
in nearby Szeged, an earthen dike was built around the
town. In addition, a stone wall following the former
banks of Lake Hód was built. Though the town was
characterized by agriculture until the mid 1870s, by 1890
with increasing urbanization, the town became the 4th
largest in the country. The early 20th century was
characterized by a great deal of construction, though 70% of
the population continued to engage in farming and livestock
trades, especially horse breeding. Today, the town is
a tourist destination and is still renowned for its
artisans, including embroidery and pottery. Museums
(including a permanent Holocaust exhibit and Emlékpont, a
museum dedicated to the period of Soviet occupation), houses
of worship, galleries, statues and monuments, parks and a
thermal swimming hall are other notable attractions.
The library has a collection of antique books from the 17th
and 18th centuries. The people of Hódmezővásárhely
take pride in their town being a city of the arts.

examples of embroidery and pottery from
workshops in Hódmezővásárhely

History of the Jewish
Community:Hódmezővásárhelyhas a
favorable commercial location which attracted Jewish
merchants and peddlers, though Jews
first settled within the boundaries of the city as farmers
on the estate of the family of Count Károlyi in 1748.
They were expelled in 1770 due to objections by the Greek
Orthodox Church, but by 1780 three Jewish merchants were
living in the town (Jakab, Matyas, and Bernard, a
tanner). In 1810 the Jews received authorization to
sell kosher wine, indicating the beginning of their
re-organization as a religious group, and a yeshiva was
established in 1820, but a regular community was not
established until 1829, when a certificate stating that Jews
were "useful" was issued. Until 1830 burials took
place in the graveyard of the congregation in Makó. As
early as 1833, the community entered into negotiations with
various landowners to obtain property or buildings to use as
a synagogue. A house was purchased in 1834 that served
as the first synagogue. By 1836, 33 Jewish families
were registered in the area. The gentile community was
tolerant of their Jewish neighbors, and in 1838, Moritz
BÖHM, who had moved to Hódmezővásárhely from Moravia, was
elected the city surgeon. Samuel WODIANER also received
permission to open a mill the same year.
The community quickly outgrew the
original building quickly and a neighboring house was
purchased, where a school opened in 1845. At the same time a
mikveh was built. The school held a very prominent
place in the community. Short biographical sketches
along with photographs of many of the teachers can be found
in the Notable Jews from Hódmezővásárhely link,
below. During the 1840s, most of the Jewish heads of
household were merchants, artisans and professionals.
Many Jews from Hódmezővásárhely, including
forty men who served in the National Guard and thirteen men
in the Army, participated in the ill-fated Hungarian war for
independence in 1848-1849. As consequence, the
Austrians assessed the community a heavy fine and placed
many restrictions on religious life. However, by 1850
the community had a rabbi, Abraham GRÜNHUT, and the next
year alderman Sámuel WODIÁNER proposed the construction of a
new synagogue. See Synagogue below for more information
about the Hódmezővásárhely synagogue. In 1866 a women's group
was established. In 1868, the community joined the
Neologists. An Orthodox Jewish congregation was
founded in 1872 in opposition to the Neologs, however, by
1875 it had merged with the Neolog congregation. At
this time, Jews still engaged mainly in small trade, though
there were a few wealthy merchants and even some
industrialists.
There was a continued strong
identification with Hungarian sentiments and interests, to
the extent that many young men volunteered to fight in
WWI. So strong was the feeling of patriotism, that
some families went above and beyond, such as that of Abrahám
BERNSTEIN, whose 4 sons enlisted and Ignác WEISZ, whose 5
sons and 2 sons-in-law enlisted. Twenty-nine of the Jewish
soldiers from Hódmezővásárhelywere lost on the various fronts. Between 1914 and
1919, the congregation, Chevra Kaddisha and the women's
group jointly operated a hospital for the wounded veterans.
In the interwar period, Jews continued
to play a leading role in the local economy, as almost
one-fifth of the merchants were Jewish or of Jewish
descent. Jews also played an important role in the
political and public life of the town. In 1934, 10% of the
town's elected officials were Jews.
In the 1942-1943 academic year,
the school had two instructors and 47 students.
The congregation was re-established
after the war by the survivors under the leadership of
Lőrinc WEISZ. There is still a Jewish community in Hódmezővásárhely today.

Cemetery:The
Jewish cemetery in Hódmezővásárhely is in good
condition and well maintained by the
community at some considerable cost to them.
Despite contributions from the community and from
emigrants abroad, after the war the synagogue
organ was sold to raise money for the upkeep
of the cemetery. A caretaker is employed and
there is a registry book about the deceased,
showing the row and gravesite numbers.
Restoration efforts are on-going.Holocaust: The Jewish economy was
ruined in 1938 due to the institution of anti-Jewish
restrictions. In 1939, the voting rights of the
majority of Jews eligible to vote in elections were
withdrawn. By 1944, most of the agricultural land taken from
Jews was given to members of the National Council of Heroes,
a central administrative group established by Admiral Horthy
in the interwar years to reward by means of land grants
those who had given outstanding service to Hungary during
wartime.
Hódmezővásárhely was one of the
most important recruitment centers for Hungary's labor
service companies, serving as the headquarters of the 5th
Labor Service Battalion. From 1940 onward, men were
conscripted into labor battalions, many of whom were sent to
fronts in the Ukraine. The congregation regularly
undertook collections to benefit labor servicemen, and an
assistance committee was established to aid the
jobless. By 1944, 28 Jewish labor servicemen were
reported missing.
After German occupation, the Jews
were relatively lucky as the local authorities resisted
attempts to establish a ghetto and the residents could stay
in their apartments. However, a ghetto was
eventually established, located in the Jewish section of
town, in a triangle bounded by Szent István Square and
Ferencz, Búvár, Eszterházy, Klauzál and Szeremle
streets. In April, 1944, several Jews were jailed and
others were prosecuted for failing to wear the yellow
star. Radio sets, typewriters and bicycles that had
been confiscated from Jews were distributed to local
organizations such as the Arrow Cross party, the Roman
Catholic parish church and the farmer's association.
Shops, businesses and industrial plants owned by Jews were
closed, including the town's two Jewish-owned pharmacies,
and phones owned by Jews were disconnected.
In early May, the authorities dissolved
the Chevra Kaddisha and the Jewish Women's Group. Also
that spring, the library discarded books by Jewish authors,
which were then pulped. The Jewish council, consisting
of Dr. Béla DEUTSCH (congregation president), Chief Rabbi
Adolf SILBERSTEIN, Sándor NEUMANN, László WEISZ and József
BALASSA, was formed in mid-May.
On June 16, 1944, with the aid of
gendarmes from the nearby town of Makó, local policemen and
members of the compulsory paramilitary youth movement, 737
Jews were herded into the synagogue, where they were
subjected to humiliating body searches and deprived of what
few remaining valuables they had. The gendarmes even
forced Dr. DEUTSCH to empty the latrine by hand, in case
jewelry had been hidden there. A second body search was
carried out on June 17th, prior to being marched to the main
railway station, where they were transferred to the Szeged
ghetto in a freight train made up of 20 boxcars.
According to one survivor, the trip took almost two days,
even though Szeged is only 22 km from Hódmezővásárhely.
Conditions in Szeged were
deplorable. 4600 people from the surrounding areas
were kept in military tents on athletic fields belonging to
the Szeged Railway Athletic Association in a space that in
theory could accommodate up to 2400 people.
Subsequently, almost everyone was transferred to the
brickyard concentration and entrainment center at 30-33
Cserzy Mihály Street owned by the Szeged Brick Factory
Association. In the brickyard, conditions were
worse. It was supposed to contain only 2000 people,
but at times up to 8,000-9,000 people were crowded into the
facility.
On June 20th, Jewish leaders from
Szeged and Hódmezővásárhely were summoned and informed of
the rescue action being undertaken by Rezső KASZTNER.
They were asked to draw up a list of names of people who had
numerous dependents, who were the family of labor servicemen
or were prominent figures in the community. These
people were to be exempted from deportation to extermination
camps and sent to labor camps
instead.
Between June 25th and June 28th,
the less fortunate were deported to Auschwitz and
Wiener-Neustadt. Of the Jews deported to Auschwitz,
only five returned. The more fortunate were deported
to Strasshof, a transit camp in Austria, where the deportees
were assigned to labor stations in various places in lower
Austria. Many of these Strasshof deportees survived. Even so, over 500
people perished. For additional information on
the transport to Strasshof, see the NEMÉTH family story,
below.
In 2005, A commemoration was held
to mark the 60th anniversary of the Holocaust. For the
most part, commemorations are now held yearly, the most
recent being in April, 2013. Jewish
victims of WWIISynagogue:Hódmezővásárhely's
synagogue
is one of the most outstanding synagogues in all of
Hungary. It was originally built in the Romantic
style. Construction began in 1852 under the direction
of Miklós Busch, a builder from Szentes. The state of
the community's finances caused delays, but in 1856 the
interior work was begun. In 1857 the synagogue was
completed. An inauguration ceremony, led by Rabbi
Lipót LÖW of the neighboring community of Szeged, was held
on May 15, 1857. In 1881 a collection was initiated to
add an organ behind the women's gallery, but it was not
installed until 1897. Also around the turn of the
century, a choir was introduced and services began to be
conducted in Hungarian.
The synagogue was refurbished in
the Secessionist* style between 1906 and 1908 under the
direction of Szeged architect Miksa MÜLLER. At this
time the building received a new main facade and staircase,
a new reinforced concrete ceiling, as well as modifications
to the interior. Sculptor József BERTAKOVITS from
Budapest was hired for the interior work. A new Aron
Kodesh was constructed, the organ was relocated to the
eastern side, and the windows were replaced with stained
glass.
The women's galleries frame three
sides of the interior and the choir stalls are above the
Aron Kodesh (Ark). Above the Ark is an inscription in
Hebrew from Psalms 16:8--"I have set the Lord always before
me". Above the lead-glass Tiffany style rosette on the
front of the building is another Hebrew inscription quoting
Psalms 91:2--"I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my
fortress, my God; in him will I trust."
Following the war, János
VANDERSTEIN and József SZEKERES helped organize the
community of survivors and led efforts to restore the
building. However, the remnants of the once-thriving
Jewish community were no longer able to maintain the
synagogue. The state of the building deteriorated,
helped along by a thunderstorm during which the roof was
severely damaged. Although the roof was eventually
repaired, there was considerable damage to the ceiling and
walls.
In 1974 marble memorial plaques and
a symbolic black tomb memorializing the deported Jews were
placed in the vestibule of the synagogue. In 1986, the
Jewish community made an agreement with the municipality, in
which the town would purchase the synagogue and the school
building and utilize them for cultural purposes. The
synagogue, which was still in a state of disrepair, began
reconstruction for a 3rd time, funded generously by the
municipality. Reconstruction on the adjoining school
began in the late 1990s. Reconstruction was slow and
laborious, but the buildings were fully restored in time for
the country-wide Holocaust commemoration in 2005. As
well as worship services, the synagogue can also be used as
a venue for concerts and other cultural activities.
The school building houses a permanent Holocaust exhibit, a
museum which is unique in rural Hungary.
In 2005, approximately 40 people
attended Rosh Hashanah services in the 626 seat synagogue, a
tribute to the durability and persistence of the community,
but nevertheless a stark reminder of the losses suffered by
the city's Jews.

*Secession: an eclectic style of decoration in art and
architecture developed towards the end of the 19th century
characterized by organic and dynamic forms, curving design
and "whiplash" lines, often incorporating folk motifs.

Hódmezőzovásárhely
synagogue

synagogue
interior

Rabbis:Several prominent rabbis
served the community of Hódmezővásárhely. Among them
were:
Izrael STEINER: first Rabbi of the
town, originally from Nyitra.
Ábrahám GRÜNHUT (born in Nagy Karoly in
1809 and died in 1877; officiated 1830-1866), also known as
A. KROL.
Lajos SELTMANN (1854, Tiszanáná-1932,
HMV; officiated 1879-1932; married Anna nee PAPPENHEIM) was
a noted Rabbi, philosopher, theologian, author and
orator. His father, Alexander SELTMANN (1800-1860),
was the Rabbi of the village of Poroszló. Due to the
early death of his parents, Lajos' youth was marked by
struggle and poverty. A hardworking student, he first
went to Bratislava for his studies, then to the University
of Berlin where he received his Doctorate in
Philosophy. He received his first position as a Deputy
Rabbi in Szeged in 1878 at the age of 24. The
following year, he became Rabbi of Hódmezővásárhely. He
was well respected by the various factions of the Jewish
community and able to bring them together, creating a more
harmonious community. He traveled widely and gave his
sermons alternately in Hungarian and German. He also
maintained excellent relationships with the non-Jewish
community, and his funeral was attended by town dignitaries
and officials of the local churches.

Lajos SELTMANN

Meir (Dr. Pál) WEISS / WEISZ (born
1908 in Budapest, died 1998 in Jerusalem, Israel; officiated
1933-1937) He was able to reach Palestine in 1945 after a
journey from Bergen Belsen to Switzerland. During his
career he was a teacher, writer of technical and scientific
work, a school principal and a University professor.
He was at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel from 1957
to 1961, then in 1961 moved to the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem where he was a professor of Bible Studies until
his retirement. He received the Israel Prize* in 1990
for his contributions to Jewish Studies.
*The Israel Prize is awarded to those who have displayed
excellence in their field, or who have made major
contributions to Israeli culture or to the State of Israel.

Notable Jews from
Hódmezővásárhely
Includes biographical sketches of teachers
in the Jewish School as well as a list of members of the
Israelite Hungarian Literary Society, founded in the
1890s by Lajos SELTMANN.

The
Jewish Community today:The
Jewish community consists of about 40
people. Regular Friday evening and holiday
services are held in the synagogue, led by a
Cantor. There is no Religious School due
to the very small number of children in the
community. Jewish education takes place
during services and holiday events. A
community organization known as the
"Hungarian-Israel Friendship Organization" aims
to educate the general public about Jewish
culture and religion. Aside from regular
local meetings, in 2009 a conference was held in
which 15 Jewish communities from within Hungary
and nearby countries participated. The
Holocaust Museum has an active education program
and hosts high school groups from around the
region. Many tourists, both from within
Hungary and abroad also visit. While a
good number of people are receptive to learning
about Jews and Judaism, nevertheless, ignorance
of Jewish tradtions at best and overt
anti-Semitism at worst continues to be a
problem. A member of the community
describes it as a "great challenge to be a Jew
in Hungary". Jews are expected to conform
to Hungarian societal norms, making it difficult
to observe Jewish customs, an example being not
receiving time off from work to attend holiday
services. Assimilation and attrition
within the community are also challenges.
Though many of the older generation seek to
reclaim their origins and identity, other Jews
seek the larger communities of Budapest or
Israel.

Jews from Hódmezővásárhely who participated in the
Hungarian Revolution of 1848Őrmesterek: KOHN,
Alb. (peddler), SCHWEIGER, Mor (broker), WEINBERGER,
Sim.
Tizedesek: STEINER,
Vilmos, RUHMAN, Mor (peddler)
Közhonvédek (Civil
defense): MULLER, Karoly (peddler), POLLÁK, Samuel
(servant), SINGER, Karoly (peddler), SINGER, Lőrinczwww.hmvhelyzsidohitkozseg.blogspot.huwebsite
(in Hungarian) about the Jewish
community of Hódmezővásárhely.
Google Chrome will automatically
translate the site, and though the
translation is not great, one gets the
idea. The webmaster thanks the
Jewish community of Hódmezővásárhely for
the use of information from their
website on this page.

STÖSZEL family:
The family of the webmaster is the STÖSZEL family.
A family of cantors, they were very itinerant, but lived
in Hódmezővásárhely from about
1860 through the 1870s. The patriarch of the family
was Cantor Israel STÖSZEL/STESZEL (1781-1864). He and
his wife Resi nee HECHT had 5 children--sons Moritz/Mor and
Salomon, both cantors, and daughters Fani (1848-1866),
Czilli and Mari. The children were born in such varied
places as Csecse, Brezova and Eger. The family lived
in Eger prior to moving to Hódmezővásárhely.

1)
Moritz STÖSZEL (1833, Brezova-?), a cantor at the
synagogue, pictured above, and his wife Antonia nee
DESZBERG had their first child, Hani, b. 1859, in Eger,
but most of their subsequent children (daughter Rozi,
twins Katarina and Josephina, both of whom died as
infants, son Sandor who also died as an infant, son Lajos
and daughter Lotti) were born in Hódmezővásárhely. In
the late 1860s they moved to Buda, where their daughter
Rozi died, only 4 years old. Around 1870 they moved
to Nagyvarad (Oradea, Romania), where they had two more
children: Miksa and Jeno (died in infancy). They may
also have had a daughter named Marta in Nagyvarad.

Lotti STÖSZEL (1870-1944, Auschwitz)
married Max Daniel BRASCH (1866-1942, Theresienstadt), a
merchant from Berlin, where they lived prior to being
deported to Theresienstadt.

2)
Mari STÖSZEL (1840, Eger 1877, Nagyvarad) married David
KRAUSZ (1836-1884). They had 5 children, 2 of whom
did not survive infancy. Their daughter Pepi, b.
1869, was married twice, first to Unknown REININGER and
second to Zsigmond BIZAM (1861-1939), with whom she had a
daughter, Maria, born in 1893. Mari and
David's other children were Roza, b. 1863, and Wilhelm, b.
1867. Roza, aka Regina, lived at 5 Zsigmond Street
in Hódmezővásárhely
when
she was deported on June 16, 1944. Mari and her
husband also went to Nagyvarad, where Mari died in 1877.
3)
Czilli STÖSZEL (1835, Csecse - 1910, Eger), the eldest
daughter, stayed in Eger with her husband Israel Jozsef
DRESDNER (1835-?) and their 13 children. Four of the
children died in infancy or as toddlers. It is not
know what happened to most of the children, but three of
the daughters married.
Pepi/Josefa/Piroska
DRESDNER
(1866-?) married Karoly DEUTSCH (1860-?), a merchant and
had 10 children, Endre, Iren, Gyula, Istvan, Aranka,
Oszkar (Oszi), Sandor, Gyorgy (Gyuszi), Jozsef and
Erzsebet. Gyula and Istvan died as infants. Two
sons, Dr. Gyorgy DEUTSCH (1900-194?) and Dr. Jozsef
DEUTSCH (1903-1943) died in labor battalions during the
Holocaust. Information from the International
Tracing Service (ITS) collection held by the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) suggests that Jozsef was
attached to the Hungarian 2nd Army which was overrun and
virtually wiped out during a major offensive by the Soviet
Red Army along the Don River near Voronezh in Russia in
late January, 1943. The rest of the children
survived the Holocaust, and their descendants live in
Canada, the United States and Hungary today.
Francziska DRESDNER (1877-?) married Ferenc WEISZ (1881-?)
in 1905 in Ujpest. Their son, Jozsef WEISZ, was born
in 1911.
Maria Lujza DRESDNER (1878-?) married first Izsak Mozes
WILBACH (1876-?) in Ujpest in 1902. Their daughter
was Sara WILBACH (1905-?) who married Ivan TIBOR in Ujpest
in 1931. Maria Lujza's second husband was Armin
GONDA (1875-?), whom she married in 1919 in Ujpest.

4)
Salomon
STÖSZEL (1836, Brezova - 1909, Cleveland, OH) married Rozi
ADLER in Vac (Vacz/Waitzen) in 1861. They had 6
children, two sons and four daughters. The family
lived in Parutcza, near Nyitra, where they were duly
recorded in the 1869 census, but returned to Vac and then
moved to Budapest. Their son Lipot Samuel was born in
1862. He married Karola/Katalin SCHNELLER of
Balassagyarmat in Pest in 1887. Lipot was a
physician. Lipot and Katalin's only child, Pal, died
at the age of 15. Lipot died in 1944.
Salomon and Rozi's daughter Therezia/Rezi was born in
1865; she married Salamon KRAUSZ (b. 1862, Csosz) in Vac in
1887. Their son, Ivan, was living in the small town of
Vajszlo in southern Hungary near the Croatian border as of
1944.
The middle daughter, Josefa, was born in Nyitra in
1868. She died at the tender age of eighteen in Vac of
an intestinal ailment. The middle son, Zsigmond, born
in 1869 in Nyitra, was a plumber and died of tuberculosis in
Buda in 1890.
Another
daughter, Gizella, lived in Budapest and was an accountant
who remained single. The 5th daughter, Eleonora,
married Marton SILBERKRAUSZ of Gyöngyos, a painter,
surname changed to SZÁNTÓ, in 1898. They had four
children: Rozsi, Imre, György (Gyula) and László, all born
between 1901 and 1907. György, a slave laborer,
perished in the Felixdorf, Austria concentration camp.
Rozsi, her parents and Aunt Gizella all died just days apart
just after Budapest was liberated by the Russians in January
of 1945. Imre and László survived and co-inherited the
family's apartment on 37/c Szondy utca. Anyone with
information about any descendants of the surviving brothers
is urged to contact the webmaster.
Salomon
and Rozi were divorced, and Salamon subsequently married
Maria LICHT of Körmend, Vas megye in 1875. Salamon and
Maria and their 5 children moved to Uzhorod and then to the
United States. They lived in Cleveland, Ohio, where
the name STÖSZEL was Americanized to STACEL. Salomon
was the cantor for the Eagle Avenue Hungarian Synagogue, now
known as B'nai Jeshurun, in Cleveland. Salomon and
Marie's son Jacob STACEL was a municipal judge in Cleveland
in the 1920s and 1930s and was the grandfather of the
webmaster.

*Anyone with knowledge of any of the
individuals mentioned in the STOSZEL family story is
encouraged to contact the webmaster. In addition,
there is a STÖSZEL/POLLATSCHEK (POLACSIK) family in Vac that
is possibly related to my family. Regina/Rebeka
STESZL/STÖSZEL (1824, Oravka, Arva megye-1904, Budapest)
married Natan/Nathan POLACSIK/POLLATSCHEK. On her
death certificate, Regina's parents are listed as Ignatz
STÖSSEL and Terez DONNER. If Ignatz and Israel are the
same person, then Regina would be a half-sister by
presumably the first wife. The children of Nathan
POLLATSCHEK and Regina STÖSZEL were:
Izsak
b. 1850, married Regina PRAGER in Pest in 1879; children
Sandor b. 1881, Roza b. 1883, Ilka b. 1884, Ferenc,
(1886-1890). Unconfirmed child: Terez, married Nandor
KIS.
July/Julia
b. 1852, married Mark RAUSNITZ in 1873 in Pest; son Nandor
b. 1874.
Ester Anna
b. 1853, married Samu SCHANZER in 1873 in Pest.
Children Terez, b. 1875, Nandor b. 1877, Lipot b. 1879,
Hermina (1881-1883), Jeno (1882-1883).
Tscharna/Sarolta?
?married? Juda POLACSEK in 1872; son Mano b. 1889.
Hanni b.
1857, married Armin GLATTER in Pest in 1877; children Alfred
b. 1878, Vilmos b. 1880, Jeanetta b. 1882, Izidor 1883-1884,
Ernesztin b. 1885 and Ede b. 1892.
Felix b.
1859,married Hanni PRAGER in 1882 in Pest; children Iren b.
1883, Olga (1884-1885), Sandor b. 1889 and Natalie b.
1894. Unconfirmed children: Anna b. 1886, married
Vilmos RACZ and Erzsebet married Jeno GRUNFELD.
Gyula/Elchane b. 1861, married Terez BERGSTEIN in Pest in
1886. Children Bela (1891-?; changed surname to
POLLACK, married a member of the Polish nobility, became an
architect in Krakow and served as treasury minister in
Poland, had two daughters, one of whom died during the war,
one survived and lived into the 1980s. Grandchildren
live in Krakow today), Gizella (1899-?), Zsofia (1894-?;
married unknown REVETZ, no children), Lilica (?-1973, had a
daughter also named Lilica), Janka (1899-1944; married
Dr. Sandor WOLLNER who had a son Daniel from a prior
marriage; Janka and Sandor had a son Tamas 1935-1944), Adel
(1887-1961; married Zsigmond TOROK, their daughter Marta, b.
1909 married Dr. Laszlo SPINNER)
Resi
b.
1863
Pepi b.
1867.

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Hungarian Marriages Database, Hungarian Deaths
Database, Hungarian Holocaust Memorials Database,
Who's Who in Budapest 1837 and 1845, and much
more. The All-Hungary Database is a work in
progress and new entries are being added
regularly. Volunteers to help transcribe records
are needed. Contact the webmaster for more
information on how to volunteer.

The Geographical Encyclopedia of the Holocaust in
Hungary, edited by Randolph L. Braham, published by
Northwestern University Press in association with the
United States, Holocaust Memorial Museum and the
Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies; copyright
2013.

Individuals:
Noemi Vanderstein
Inge Winter
Daniel Gerhat for assistance with translations
Andrew Lenard, with special thanks for his suggestions,
assistance and most of all, his support of this endeavor
T. Poteat